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Play.com will cease retail trading following the closure of a Jersey tax loophole that has seen the site axe many jobs across all territories, and will instead moved into the trading territory currently dominated by eBay.

Nintendo announced last night it would let European retailers set the price for 3DS XL, and today, Play.com has come out of the retail gate swinging by offering the new SKU for £179.99. ShopTo has it listed for £179.84 with an estimated RRP of £199.99. Zavvi has it listed for £209.95, with the RRP listed […]

Play.com‘s priced Vita titles and memory cards ahead of official confirmation from Sony, including a listing of £45 for Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Also listed are low-end titles such as Little Deviants and Reality Fighters at £18. Mid-range games like Everybody’s Golf, Wipeout 2048 and Modnation Racers are in between £30-£35. For the memory cards, it’s […]

Play.com’s guaranteeing you’ll have Modern Warfare 2 on launch day for £45, provided you buy the game by midnight this Sunday. That’s £10 off the RRP for both the 360 and PS3 versions. The PC version costs £35. Get to it. It’s out on November 10.

Admit it. You’ve always wanted a Tekken hat. Fortune smiles on you this morning, then, thanks to the announcement of Tekken 6′s pre-order bonuses for the UK. For the early fight adopters in the audience, Game has special collector cards (PS3, 360); HMV has t-shirts (PS3, 360); Play.com has lapel pins (PS3, 360); Blockbuster has […]

Play.com’s now listing DJ Hero at £90, a significant climb-down from initial pre-order levels of £108. HMV’s still punting the game for £100, while GameStation’s got it up for an amazing £110. So has Game. Still no word at all on the Renegade Edition‘s pricing.

A sales surge in UK game sales has followed last week’s BAFTA Awards, according to Play.com and GAME. Play.com saw a 14 percent increase over targeted projections in new customers, and GAME said that games sporting BAFTA stickers have been flying off the shelves. “The reaction in GAME stores and online to the BAFTAs has […]

[Update - It's £13 on Amazon. That's a bit stupid. Thanks, tenthousandgothsonacid.] Play.com is offering LittleBigPlanet for £17.99, which, in the parlance of the gutter, is fucking cheap. Tesco, not be outdone, has gone even cheaper: how does £17.96 sound? The Media Molecule award-winner currently costs £40 from both Game and Gamestation. So you probably […]

Our sources never lie: Play.com’s launched a ridiculous sale, dropping the likes of GTA IV, Far Cry 2, BioShock PS3, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Saints Row 2 to an eye-watering £17.99. You can buy Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures for a tenner through there. There are even reduced Wii bundles: the console, Wii […]

What do you do when you don’t want to drop the price of your console on the high street? You cut out retail, silly. Sony’s offering a £40 discount on new 40Gb PS3s through SonyStyle.co.uk, meaning you can pick a machine up for £269 right now. Keep watching, as well. There’s a bundle there which […]

Play.com’s selling Square RPG The Last Remnant for £17.99, as you can see here. It’s been out for a week. Despite the fact it didn’t attract the most amazing scores in the world, if you’re in the market for a hardcore 360 JRPG it’d be nonsense not to try it at that price. Xbox 360 […]

Play.com’s doing its best to keep PS3′s price down, despite Sony’s refusal to offer an official cut, launching two new Christmas bundles for the machine today. The first pack comes with an 80Gb machine, Quantum Of Solace, Batman Begins Blu-ray, the Blu-ray remote and LittleBigPlanet for £300. The second swaps out Quantum of Solace for […]

According to this GI story, Play.com is now taking 80 orders a minute for GTA IV. “We’re experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run up to Christmas, taking over 80 orders per minute at peak times,” said Play COO Stuart Rowe. “We have had to recruit extra warehouse staff to […]

Play.com will cease retail trading following the closure of a Jersey tax loophole that has seen the site axe many jobs across all territories, and will instead moved into the trading territory currently dominated by eBay.

Nintendo announced last night it would let European retailers set the price for 3DS XL, and today, Play.com has come out of the retail gate swinging by offering the new SKU for £179.99. ShopTo has it listed for £179.84 with an estimated RRP of £199.99. Zavvi has it listed for £209.95, with the RRP listed […]

Play.com‘s priced Vita titles and memory cards ahead of official confirmation from Sony, including a listing of £45 for Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Also listed are low-end titles such as Little Deviants and Reality Fighters at £18. Mid-range games like Everybody’s Golf, Wipeout 2048 and Modnation Racers are in between £30-£35. For the memory cards, it’s […]

Play.com’s guaranteeing you’ll have Modern Warfare 2 on launch day for £45, provided you buy the game by midnight this Sunday. That’s £10 off the RRP for both the 360 and PS3 versions. The PC version costs £35. Get to it. It’s out on November 10.

Admit it. You’ve always wanted a Tekken hat. Fortune smiles on you this morning, then, thanks to the announcement of Tekken 6′s pre-order bonuses for the UK. For the early fight adopters in the audience, Game has special collector cards (PS3, 360); HMV has t-shirts (PS3, 360); Play.com has lapel pins (PS3, 360); Blockbuster has […]

Play.com’s now listing DJ Hero at £90, a significant climb-down from initial pre-order levels of £108. HMV’s still punting the game for £100, while GameStation’s got it up for an amazing £110. So has Game. Still no word at all on the Renegade Edition‘s pricing.

A sales surge in UK game sales has followed last week’s BAFTA Awards, according to Play.com and GAME. Play.com saw a 14 percent increase over targeted projections in new customers, and GAME said that games sporting BAFTA stickers have been flying off the shelves. “The reaction in GAME stores and online to the BAFTAs has […]

[Update - It's £13 on Amazon. That's a bit stupid. Thanks, tenthousandgothsonacid.] Play.com is offering LittleBigPlanet for £17.99, which, in the parlance of the gutter, is fucking cheap. Tesco, not be outdone, has gone even cheaper: how does £17.96 sound? The Media Molecule award-winner currently costs £40 from both Game and Gamestation. So you probably […]

Our sources never lie: Play.com’s launched a ridiculous sale, dropping the likes of GTA IV, Far Cry 2, BioShock PS3, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Saints Row 2 to an eye-watering £17.99. You can buy Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures for a tenner through there. There are even reduced Wii bundles: the console, Wii […]

What do you do when you don’t want to drop the price of your console on the high street? You cut out retail, silly. Sony’s offering a £40 discount on new 40Gb PS3s through SonyStyle.co.uk, meaning you can pick a machine up for £269 right now. Keep watching, as well. There’s a bundle there which […]

Play.com’s selling Square RPG The Last Remnant for £17.99, as you can see here. It’s been out for a week. Despite the fact it didn’t attract the most amazing scores in the world, if you’re in the market for a hardcore 360 JRPG it’d be nonsense not to try it at that price. Xbox 360 […]

Play.com’s doing its best to keep PS3′s price down, despite Sony’s refusal to offer an official cut, launching two new Christmas bundles for the machine today. The first pack comes with an 80Gb machine, Quantum Of Solace, Batman Begins Blu-ray, the Blu-ray remote and LittleBigPlanet for £300. The second swaps out Quantum of Solace for […]

According to this GI story, Play.com is now taking 80 orders a minute for GTA IV. “We’re experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run up to Christmas, taking over 80 orders per minute at peak times,” said Play COO Stuart Rowe. “We have had to recruit extra warehouse staff to […]

Play.com games boss Gian Luzio has told MCV that GTA IV is already the fatest selling game on PS3, and that the title is also proving to be a system seller. “This is the biggest ever title for PS3 by a long way – and probably 360 as well,” he said. “I’ve been really blown […]

Play.com has priced the Rock Band Instrument Pack at £99.99 for UK residents, with the game itself costing £39.99. The online retailer seems to have listened to angry consumers in wake of today’s official announcement that the Instrument Pack’s RRP had been set at £140 in Europe, and that the Rock Band disc itself wouldn’t […]

Here. “Our initial allocation of stock has now sold through,” said the site. “All orders placed on or after 25th March will be fulfilled week commencing 31st March.” The game releases on March 28. Still has plenty of the Prologue bundle left for this weekend, if you fancy it.

Despite Fable 2 being listed as a May 30 release by Play.com yesterday, the game will not be released until the end of the year. “Peter was saying at GDC that Fable 2 won’t be released until late autumn at the earliest,” a source told videogaming247. Remember what Phil says, readers: don’t believe everything you […]

Says so here. Play.com’s Gian Luzio reckons demand for the Wembley show this weekend has been good. “The tickets have been selling really well,” he said. “We are looking at in excess of 20,000 people. There’s been a lot of consumer demand for the event, which will enable people to get their hands on games […]